June 2011
2 posts
Control
Steel worry—
your yesterday woman.
Say this is over
because, brother, you smiledazzle when you
open hot hands.
The flower you hold always breathes
fresh breeze most
naked.
Remember.
“Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of...”
– Rosemarie Urquico (via kblitz)
(via conversationslips)
Rosemarie no longer has an active blog, but she can be found on Facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/profile.php?id=585211028 To see the post about how she was found, please go here. Thanks to Booksnbrew for searching!
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May 2011
1 post
April 2011
2 posts
I Saw God Today In:
The GORGEOUS Flagstaff weather
The time I got to spend with Him this morning
The beauty of a dandelion
My little cousins and getting to Skype with them
His hand of peace during my interview
Katherine Kidder’s random text of encouragement
Learning the proper way to act in a God-glorifying romantic relationship
Aleesa’s awesomeness
Being gently woken up by the sun…not an...
October 2010
1 post
Holy Sonnet XIV by John Donne
Batter my heart, three-person’d God ; for you As yet but knock ; breathe, shine, and seek to mend ; That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend Your force, to break, blow, burn, and make me new. I, like an usurp’d town, to another due, Labour to admit you, but O, to no end. Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend, But is captived, and proves weak or...
September 2010
1 post
“You want God to appear to you in the way your passions desire, but these...”
– John Eudes as quoted by Henri Nouwen in Spiritual Journals
August 2010
1 post
“So long as we imagine it is we who have to look for God, we must often lose...”
– Simon Tugwell
April 2010
1 post
“And so we are transfigured much like the Messiah, our lives gradually become...”
– 2 Cor 3:18
March 2010
10 posts
A Love Letter
My Dearest Love,
I watched you today, just a whisper away, as you lay on the hard ground weeping. I felt a knife cut right through my heart as I sensed your pain, fear and weariness with the burdens you bear: shame, disappointment and the dark despair of loneliness. I know sometimes it is so bad you want only to run away from the world—disappear and find a place to rest. You want to close...
The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
“No. You’re forgetting,” said the Spirit. “That was not how you began. Light itself was your first love: you loved paint only as a means of telling about light.”
“Oh, that’s ages ago,” said the Ghost. ”One grows out of that. Of course, you haven’t seen any of my later works. One becomes more interested in paint for its own...
“I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”
– Augusten Burroughs (via restartmyheart)
February 2010
30 posts
Angry Conversations with God by Susan Isaacs
Susan: And that, Rudy, is how I ended up in your office four months ago, unable to function. I know I messed up. But I thought I was doing the right thing, coming back to LA, helping my mother, getting my professional life back, putting Jesus before everything else. And God torched all of it. All at once
Rudy: What about what Sophie said, that it’s just a dysfunctional business?
Susan:...
Difficult Questions:
I haven’t written my thoughts lately because I’ve been wrestling with the questions of “Why does a good, loving God allow suffering?” and “Is God a safe god? Can I trust Him?” I’ve been questioning God’s heart and His motives and intentions.
While I won’t even attempt to answer those questions, I’ll leave that for scholars wiser than...
“My God, what is a heart
That thou shouldst it so eye and woo
Powering upon it...”
– George Herbert
“When I no more can stir my soul to move,
And life is but the ashes of a fire;...”
– George MacDonald from “The Diary of an Old Soul”
I am thankful for:
E.E. Cummings poetry
Friendships that change your life
Cloud shapes
Many hugs a day
Compliments when I’m not even wearing make-up
Kailey’s challenges
Writing
Tea dates
God’s love
Surprises
Girls’ night
Teachers who see the potential in me and force me to achieve it
Quiet moments
Honesty and genuineness
Books
My family
The list continues…
“When we become aware that we do not have to escape our pains, but that we can...”
– Henri Nouwen
“Our opinion of people depends less upon what we see in them than upon what they...”
– Sara Grand
“Our life is full of brokenness— broken relationships, broken promises, broken...”
– Henri Nouwen
The Masks I Wear
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” - James Arthur Baldwin
Not too long ago I went through a painful and eye-opening study by Pastor Mike Perkinson called “Why Do I Do the Things I Do?” This is a overview of his ideas and my personal reflections.
We live in continual fear. Fear of abandonment, fear of failure, fear of rejection. I’d...
“I want the presence of God Himself, or I don’t want anything at all to do...”
– A.W. Tozer
Untitled
The liberation of Nazi death camp, Bergen-Belsen
I can give no adequate description of the Horror Camp in which my men and myself were to spend the next month of our lives. It was just a barren wilderness, as bare as a chicken run. Corpses lay everywher, some in huge piles, sometimes they lay singly or in pairs where they had fallen.
It took a little time to get used to seeing men women and...
The Best Worst Day of My Life
“Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” -Phil 4:6, 7
Today was one of the hardest days I’ve gone through in a while. Let me set the scene for you.
I’ve been preparing...
“You contain in your eyes the sunset and the dawn;
You scatter perfumes like a...”
– Hymn to Beauty by Charles Baudelaire
The Role of a Woman
I think in America there is an archetype of what a woman should be. We are supposed to adhere to certain gender roles otherwise we risk the one thing all women fear: ending up alone. Pop culture tells us that it is very undesirable for someone over a certain age to be alone.
Therein lies a conflict. I am ashamed or afraid to do what I desire (like working in a foreign country or getting my...
My Identity In Christ
Because of Christ’s redemption,
I am a new creation of great worth.
I am deeply loved,
Completely forgiven,
Fully Pleasing,
Totally accepted by God,
And absolutely complete in Christ.
There has never been another person like me in the history of mankind,
Nor will there ever be.
God had made me an original,
One of a kind, really somebody.
-Adopted from “The Search for...
“Then the time came when the risk it took
To remain tight in a bud was more...”
– Anais Nin
True Colors Personality Quiz →
Who Am I?
In high school I took a “true color” personality test to discover whether I was an orange, blue, green, or gold person. As if personalities were that simple. The test format was as such: you ranked groups of adjectives in order of what you most identified with to what you least identified with. At the end you were given a score and a color that corresponded with it.
The colors...
“How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?”
– Oscar Wilde
